Voices from Vilcabamba

Voices from Vilcabamba
Author: Brian S. Bauer
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2015-03-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1607324261

A rich new source of important archival information, Voices from Vilcabamba examines the fall of the Inca Empire in unprecedented detail. Containing English translations of seven major documents from the Vilcabamba era (1536–1572), this volume presents an overview of the major events that occurred in the Vilcabamba region of Peru during the final decades of Inca rule. Brian S. Bauer, Madeleine Halac-Higashimori, and Gabriel E. Cantarutti have translated and analyzed seven documents, most notably Description of Vilcabamba by Baltasar de Ocampo Conejeros and a selection from Martín de Murúa’s General History of Peru, which focuses on the fall of Vilcabamba. Additional documents from a range of sources that include Augustinian investigations, battlefield reports, and critical eyewitness accounts are translated into English for the first time. With a critical introduction on the history of the region during the Spanish Conquest and introductions to each of the translated documents, the volume provides an enhanced narrative on the nature of European-American relations during this time of important cultural transformation.

From the city of angels to the land of fire. Danny Beer, gringo on tour

From the city of angels to the land of fire. Danny Beer, gringo on tour
Author: Danny Beer
Publisher: Litres
Total Pages: 524
Release: 2022-05-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 5042833013

Cycling around the world?Has anyone done it?Tour diaries from Danny Beer, an Australian guy, who found his passion in exploring the cities by bike and made his dreams come true. His daily adventures are shared on the pages of four different books.This book is about Latin America, South Tierre del Fuego, Panama, Costa Rica, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Equador, Colombia.20,359 km (12,650 miles) over 1 year from August 1, 2007 to August 1, 2008

The Centenarians of the Andes

The Centenarians of the Andes
Author: David Davies
Publisher: Random House Business Books
Total Pages: 146
Release: 1975
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

In the remote Andean Highlands there exist communities where individuals who live for 140 years or more, remaining agile and lucid. Death from cancer or heart disease is unknown. The author describes the villages in which these super-centenarians are found.

Angels, Demons and the New World

Angels, Demons and the New World
Author: Fernando Cervantes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2013-02-07
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1139619039

When European notions about angels and demons were exported to the New World, they underwent remarkable adaptations. Angels and demons came to form an integral part of the Spanish American cosmology, leading to the emergence of colonial urban and rural landscapes set within a strikingly theological framework. Belief in celestial and demonic spirits soon regulated and affected the daily lives of Spanish, Indigenous and Mestizo peoples, while missionary networks circulated these practices to create a widespread and generally accepted system of belief that flourished in seventeenth-century Baroque culture and spirituality. This study of angels and demons opens a particularly illuminating window onto intellectual and cultural developments in the centuries that followed the European encounter with America. The volume will be of interest to scholars and students of religious studies, anthropology of religion, history of ideas, Latin American colonial history and church history.

The Mother Earth Inn

The Mother Earth Inn
Author: Phillip Bannowsky
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2007-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0595451128

Neoliberals, neocons, revolutionaries, folk musicians, an ambassador's New Age wife, river-damming landslides, and one entrepreneurial idealist all collide in the Andean paradise of Phillip Bannowsky's satirical romance, The Mother Earth Inn. Hal Rivers, Bannowsky's feckless hero, descends into the Republic of Esmeraldas just in time for the elections of Bill Clinton back home and an insane populist in Esmeraldas. Hoping to do good while doing well, Hal ends up on a quest that is both picaresque and exposé.